Robbery

Robbery, in criminal law, an aggravated form of theft that involves violence or the threat of violence against a victim in his presence. Many criminologists have long regarded statistics on robbery to be one of the most accurate gauges of the overall crime rate.

...of another with the intent to deprive the possessor of it permanently. Burglary is larceny aggravated by the fact that it is achieved by breaking and entering premises in order to accomplish it. Robbery is larceny aggravated by the fact that it is achieved by the exercise of force or threats of force against the possessor. Embezzlement is a wrongful taking of property by someone (such as a...

...that have been closed and in which there are visible marks evidencing forcible entry. Such narrow definition is necessary to restrict burglary coverage to a particular class of criminal act. Robbery is defined as that type of unlawful taking of property in which another person is threatened by either force or violence. In the robbery peril, therefore, the element of personal contact is...

The scope given to the offense of extortion in a particular legal system is determined partly by the content of the related offense of robbery. Robbery is typically confined to taking property from the person or presence of the victim by violence or by threat to do an immediate physical harm. More remote and less terrifying threats fall within the province of the extortion and blackmail...